| A | B |
|---|
| What is the Atman? | idividual self |
| What is reincarnation? | soul reborn into different form after death |
| What is yoga? | union w/god |
| What is a dowry? | $ payed to husband from bride's family when she got married |
| What is the Mandate of Heaven? | impersonal law of nature |
| What is the aristocracy's wealth based on? | land |
| What is veneration of ancestor's? | ancestor worship |
| Where id Chinese civilization begin? | Huang and Yantze rivers |
| What did Siddartha die from? | poisonous mushrooms |
| What is India known as? | cradle of religion |
| What is Bactria known as today? | Afghanistan |
| What Chinese philosophy was adopted by the Qin dynasty? | legalism |
| What was the Zhou king seen as? | link between heaven and earth, people and nature, living and dead |
| What social group was considered as the property of the local lord in China? | peasants |
| What was tyhe Chinese famly seen as? | basin social and economic unit |
| What united China? | written language |
| How did Qin Shi Huangdi unify China? | single $ system, built roads, gave land to peasants |
| What was the greatest achievements of science in Inda made in? | astronomy, medicine, surgery procedures, & instruments |
| What did Harappan cities have? | indoor plumbing |
| What are monsoons? | seasonal winds: SW in summer, NW in winter |
| How were women seen in India? | very low, financial |
| How did Siddartha Guatama see women? | women distractions; later allowed them to join Buddhist monastic order |
| What is the caste system? | rigid social order |
| What did Siddhartha teach about reaching Nirvana? | let go of worldy cares, forget pain and sorrow and attain wisdom |
| How did China's geography affect its history? | barriers isolated it from other Asians |
| What was at the heart of India's social system? | caste system |
| What did Confucius say about individual needs? | not as important as greater good |
| How did legalism see human beings? | evil by nature |
| What did Han iron casting technology lead to? | steel |
| How did Taoists believe you would get to heaven? | act in harmony w/earth & let nature take its course |
